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26 Jan 2026

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Transformers v5: the first major release in five years

Hugging Face released Transformers v5, the first major version in five years, removing long-deprecated APIs, refactoring weight loading and tokenization, and moving to weekly minor releases.

  • 1,200 commits since the last minor release, with a lot of long-overdue cleanup.
  • From v5 on, minor versions ship weekly instead of every five weeks.

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